Improved Anti-VEGFR-2 Monoclonal Antibody

ABSTRACT

The application belongs to the technical field of biomedicines and provides an improved anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) monoclonal antibody and an application thereof. By a computer-aided simulation design, a novel phage antibody library is designed, and an improved anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody is obtained after multiple rounds of screening. Both affinity and biological activity of the antibody are higher than those of an original antibody. The antibody is capable of effectively inhibiting combination of VEGFR-2 and a ligand Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) thereof in vitro, and may be used in treating a tumor and a disease caused by angiogenesis such as macular degeneration.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS

The present application is a National Stage of International PatentApplication No: PCT/CN2018/076847, filed on Feb. 14, 2018, which claimsthe benefit of priority to Chinese Patent Application No.201710130518.0, filed Mar. 7, 2017, which are incorporated by referencein their entirety herein.

SEQUENCE LISTING

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TECHNICAL FIELD

The disclosure relates to the technical field of bio-pharmaceuticals,and in particular to an improved anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth FactorReceptor-2 (VEGFR-2) monoclonal antibody.

BACKGROUND

The situation that tumor growth depends on formation of new vessels isalready incisively studied in tumor biologics. Oxygen, nutrientsubstances, growth factors, hormone and proteolytic enzymes may beprovided from angiogenesis, then tumor cells may be promoted to diffuseand transfer far away, and tumor growth and progression may beaccelerated. Angiogenesis is a highly complex dynamic process and isregulated by multiple promote/anti-angiogenesis molecules. On/off ofangiogenesis is regarded as a malignant marker that promote-angiogenesissurpasses anti-angiogenesis. A Vascular Endothelial GrowthFactor/Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor (VEGF/VEGFR) axletriggers multiple signal networks, and thus epithelial cell survival,mitosis, transferring and differentiation, vascular permeability, VEGFand receptors thereof play a center role in normal and pathologicalangiogenesis. In multiple tumors of human beings, it verifies thatadditional tumor angiogenesis and the expression of tumor promoteangiogenesis factor are related to tumor classification and malignancy.

Vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEGF) is also called as avascular permeability factor, is a specific mitosis source ofendothelial cells and is also an effective angiogenesis and permeabilityinduction factor, identified corresponding receptors are VEGFR-1 (Flt-1,FMS-like tyrosine 1), VEGFR-2 (which is also called as KDR/Flk-1, kinaseinsert domain-containing receptor, fetal liver kinase-1), VEGFR-3(Flt4), neurofilament protein-1 (neuropilin-1), neurofilament protein-2.VEGFR-2 is a main VEGF receptor on vascular endothelial cells and is aglycoprotein, an extracellular region of the receptor has sevenimmunoglobulin-like regions (including ligand binding domains andreceptor dimerization structure domains), a tyrosine kinase catalysisstructure domain is intracellular inserted, and the receptor is mainlyexpressed on endothelial cells and other cells such as megakaryocyte,retina ancestor cells, mesenchymal stem cells, and tumor cells such asmelanoma cells, brain tumors and leukemia cells. As key molecules invascular endothelial cell specific factor signaling transductionpathway, VEGF and VEGFR-2 receptors participate in generation of novelvessels of tumors, main biological functions of VEGF are achievedthrough VEGFR-2, VEGFR-2 and VEGF are transformed into dimers afterbinding, and intracellular tyrosine residues in VEGFR-2 are subjected toself-phosphorylation, so that cytomembrane/cytoplasm kinase cascadereaction signals are activated and transmitted into cell nucleus, aseries of changes of the endothelial cells may be resulted, includingvascular endothelial cell proliferation, survival, cytoskeletonrearrangement, cell migration, gene expression and the like, and bloodvessel hyperplasia is caused ultimately.

Because of the key function of VEGF/VEGFR2 signaling pathway inoccurrence and development of tumors, a great number of medicines forVEGF/VEGFR2 signaling pathway are available, such as an anti-VEGFantibody bevacizumab and an anti-VEGFR-2 antibody ramucirumab.

Antibodies are medicines with the highest technology contents andlargest difficulties in biomedicines, and from the year of 2012, six oftop ten single medicines in global sales are antibody medicines, so thatthe antibody medicines have great development potential in the market. Aphage antibody library technology is the most common technology inantibody medicine screening, the phage antibody library technology is anew technology developed from phage display technology in gene antibodyengineering, a gene pool with all antibody variable region genes ofdifferent species may be converted into a protein library displayed onthe surface of phage, not only a monoclonal antibody is conveniently,rapidly and efficiently produced in vitro, but also a novel way isdeveloped for monoclonal antibody humanization, and development of humanmonoclonal antibody production is promoted. In the patent CN103333247 Bof our company, a series of VEGFR-2 antibodies were screened andobtained by using computer aided design and phage antibody technology, abasis is made to acquire anti-VEGFR-2 antibody medicines, and furtherstudy of our company shows that affinity, biological activity and thelike of the antibodies provided in the patent may be further improved,so that on the basis, the antibodies are improved and optimized onoriginal base.

SUMMARY

The disclosure provides an improved anti-Vascular Endothelial GrowthFactor Receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) monoclonal antibody; according to thedisclosure, two antibodies with the highest affinity in the patentCN103333247B are adopted as templates for computer aided simulationdesign, a new phage antibody library is designed, and a novelanti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody of which both the affinity and thebioactivity are better than those of original patent antibodies areobtained through multiple rounds of screening.

To achieve the above purpose, the disclosure provides an improvedanti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody, including:

a light chain variable region and a heavy chain variable region, whereinan amino acid sequence of the light chain variable region includes anyone of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:3; an amino acid sequenceof the heavy chain variable region includes SEQ ID NO:4.

The disclosure further provides an antibody, a polypeptide or a proteincomprising the light chain variable region or the heavy chain variableregion.

The disclosure further provides a polynucleotide sequence or acombination encoding the amino acid sequences of the light chainvariable region or the heavy chain variable region.

The disclosure further provides a recombinant Deoxyribonucleic Acid(DNA) expression vector comprising the polynucleotide sequence or thecombination; the recombinant DNA expression vector includes DNAsequences for encoding amino acid sequences of a heavy chain variableregion, a heavy chain constant region, a light chain variable region anda light chain constant region of anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody.

The disclosure further provides a host cell for transfecting therecombinant DNA expression vector, and the host cell includes amammalian cell, an insect cell, Escherichia coli or yeast, preferablythe mammalian cell, and further preferably an HEK293E cell, a ChineseHamster Ovary (CHO) cell or an NS0 cell.

The heavy chain constant region of the disclosure is selected from thegroup consisting of human IgG1, IgG2, IgG3 and IgG4 or the groupconsisting of mouse IgG1, IgG2a and IgG2b.

The disclosure further provides a complete antibody or a fragmentcomprising the light chain variable region or the heavy chain variableregion.

The fragment further includes, but not limited, Fab, Fab′, F(ab′)₂, Fvor ScFv.

The disclosure further provides a single-chain antibody, a single domainantibody, a bispecific antibody, an antibody medicine conjugate andchimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy comprising the amino acidsequence of the light chain variable region or the heavy chain variableregion.

The disclosure further provides a monoclonal antibody, an artificialvector, a medicine or a medicine composition comprising the light chainvariable region or the heavy chain variable region.

The disclosure further provides a detection reagent or a detection kitcomprising the light chain variable region or the heavy chain variableregion.

The antibody may be used for treating diseases caused by angiogenesis,and the diseases include, but not limited, tumors and maculardegeneration.

Wherein ScFv is a single-chain fragment variable; the HEK293E cell is ahuman embryonic kidney 293E cell; the CHO cell is a Chinese hamsterovary cell; the NS0 cell is a mouse NS0 thymoma cell.

Compared with the prior art, the disclosure has the followingadvantages.

The anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody which has higher affinity, iscapable of well inhibiting binding of VEGFR-2 and a ligand VascularEndothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) thereof in vitro, has good bioactivityin vitro and has wide development prospect.

The anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody provided by the disclosure is usedfor treating diseases caused by tumor angiogenesis, including, but notlimited, cancers such as non-small cell lung cancer, metastaticnon-small cell lung cancer, gliomas, colorectal cancer, hepatocellularcarcinoma, metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma, metastatic breast cancerwith negative Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (HER2), metastaticgastric adenocarcinoma, metastatic colorectal cancer, metastaticmelanoma and metastatic renal cell carcinoma, and diseases such asmacular degeneration.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a pScFvDisb-S plasmid profile;

FIG. 2 shows relative affinity of anti-VEGFR-2 single-chain antibody ingradient ELISA comparison;

FIG. 3 shows a protein expressed pTSE plasmid profile;

FIG. 4 shows comparison of binding capabilities of anti-VEGFR-2monoclonal antibodies with KDR;

FIG. 5 shows binding of antibodies of the disclosure with VEGFR-2 oncell surface;

FIG. 6 shows a proliferation inhibition effect of the antibodies in thedisclosure on human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC).

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

Detailed implementation methods of the disclosure are shown inembodiments, and methods and reagents in the embodiments are all commontesting methods and reagents unless otherwise specified. The embodimentsare only used for describing and interpreting the disclosure, but do notconstitute improper limitations to the disclosure.

The disclosure provides an improved anti-Vascular Endothelial GrowthFactor Receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) monoclonal antibody, including:

a light chain variable region and a heavy chain variable region, whereinan amino acid sequence of the light chain variable region includes anyone of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:3; an amino acid sequenceof the heavy chain variable region includes SEQ ID NO:4.

(VEGFR-2 light chain variable region sequence 1): SEQ ID NO: 1DIQMTQSPSSVSASIGDRVTITCRASQAIDNVVLGVVYQQKPGKAPKLLIYEGSNLNTGVPSRFSGSGSGTDFTLTISSLQAEDFAVYFCQQAKSFPPTF GGGTKVDIK;(VEGFR-2 light chain variable region sequence 2): SEQ ID NO: 2DIQMTQSPSSVSASIGDRVTITCRASDAIDQVVLGVVYQQKPGKAPKLLIYEASNLDTGVPSRFSGSGSGTDFTLTISSLQANQFAVYFCQQAKSFPPTF GGGTKVDIK;(VEGFR-2 light chain variable region sequence 3): SEQ ID NO: 3DIQMTQSPSSVSASIGDRVTITCRASQGIDQVVLGVVYQQKPGKAPKLLIYEGSNLNTGVPSRFSGSGSGTDFTLTISSLQANQFAVYFCQQAKSFPPTF GGGTKVDIK;(VEGFR-2 heavy chain variable region sequence 1): SEQ ID NO: 4QVQLVESGGGLVKPGGSLRLSCAASAFTFSSYSMNVVVRQAPGKGLEVVVSSISSSSSYIYYADSVKGRFTISRDNAKNSLYLQMNSLRAEDTAVYYCAR VTDAFDLVVGQGTMVTVSS.

Preferably, the disclosure further provides an antibody, a polypeptideor a protein comprising the light chain variable region or the heavychain variable region.

More preferably, the disclosure further provides a polynucleotidesequence or a combination encoding the amino acid sequences of the lightchain variable region or the heavy chain variable region.

More preferably, the disclosure further provides a recombinantDeoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) expression vector comprising thepolynucleotide sequence or the combination; the recombinant DNAexpression vector includes DNA sequences for encoding a heavy chainvariable region, a heavy chain constant region, a light chain variableregion and a light chain constant region of the anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonalantibody.

More preferably, the disclosure further provides a host cell fortransfecting the recombinant DNA expression vector, and the host cellincludes a mammalian cell, an insect cell, Escherichia coli or yeast,preferably the mammalian cell, and further preferably an HEK293E cell, aChinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell or an NS0 cell.

More preferably, the heavy chain constant region of the disclosure isselected from the group consisting of human IgG1, IgG2, IgG3 and IgG4 orthe group consisting of mouse IgG1, IgG2a and IgG2b.

More preferably, the disclosure further provides a complete antibody ora fragment comprising the light chain variable region or the heavy chainvariable region.

More preferably, the fragment further includes, but not limited, Fab,Fab′, F(ab′)₂, Fv or ScFv.

More preferably, the disclosure further provides a single-chainantibody, a single domain antibody, a bispecific antibody, an antibodymedicine conjugate and chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapycomprising the amino acid sequence of the light chain variable region orthe heavy chain variable region.

More preferably, the disclosure further provides a monoclonal antibody,an artificial vector, a medicine or a medicine composition comprisingthe light chain variable region or the heavy chain variable region.

More preferably, the monoclonal antibody is a full-human antibody.

More preferably, the disclosure further provides a detection reagent ora detection kit comprising the light chain variable region or the heavychain variable region.

More preferably, the antibody may be used for treating diseases causedby angiogenesis, including, but not limited, cancers such as non-smallcell lung cancer, metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, gliomas,colorectal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, metastatic hepatocellularcarcinoma, metastatic breast cancer with negative Human Epidermal GrowthFactor Receptor (HER2), metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma, metastaticcolorectal cancer, metastatic melanoma and metastatic renal cellcarcinoma, and diseases such as macular degeneration.

Detailed Embodiments

The disclosure is specifically described with drawings and embodiments.

Embodiment 1 Biopanning of Anti-VEGFR-2 Single-Chain Antibodies

A pCom3 vector (purchased from the Biovector Science Lab, Inc.) ismodified with a series of gene cloning methods, and thus the vector maybe applied to construction and expression of a phage single-chainantibody library. The modified vector is named as pScFvDisb-S, a plasmidprofile of the vector is as shown in FIG. 1, and based on the vector, anovel total synthetic phage antibody library based on antibody sequencesin patent CN10333247B is constructed.

Coat an immune tube by VEGFR-2 extracellular region as an antigen, theantigen coating amount is 2 ug/500 ul/tube, and coat over night at 4 DEGC. Respectively seal the immune tube and the total synthetic phageantibody library with 4% degreased milk powder/Phosphate Buffered TweenSolution (PBST), and seal for one hour at the room temperature. Put thesealed phage antibody library into the immune tube for antigen-antibodybinding, the amount of the phage is about 10⁹-10¹², and react for 1 hourat the room temperature. Wash a few times with PBST-Phosphate BufferedSolution (PBST-PBS) to remove phages which are not binding, elute with0.1M PH2.2 glycine, and neutralize eluted phage antibody solution with1.5M PH8.8 Tris-HCl till a pH value is about 7.0.

Infect the neutralized phage with 10 ml of TG1 bacterium solutiongrowing to a logarithmic phase, leave to stand for 30 minutes in anincubator at 37 DEG C., take out a part of the bacterium solution forgradient dilution and coat a 2YTAG plate, for calculating a phage yield.Centrifuge the residual bacterium solution to remove supernate,resuspend bacterium in a small amount of medium, suck out, and coat alarge 2YTAG plate for a next round of screening.

Scrape off the bacterium which is infected and applied to the plate fromthe large plate, inoculate with 2YTAG liquid medium, shake till thelogarithmic phase, add M13 helper phage for super-infection, cultureover night at 28 DEG C. to amplify the phage, precipitate and purify thephage with PEG6000-NaCl for a next round of screening, and enrich andscreen the phage library for three times in total.

Embodiment 2 Identification of Positive Cloning of Anti-VEGFR-2 PhageSingle-Chain Antibody

After three rounds of screening, select monocolonies with goodpartitioning, inoculate with a deep 96-pore plate with the 2YTAG liquidmedium, culture at 37 DEG C. at 220 rpm till the logarithmic phase, addabout 10¹⁰ of the helper phage M13K07 into each pore, and leave to standand infect for 30 minutes at 37 DEG C. Centrifuge at 4000 rpm for 15minutes at 4 DEG C., abandon supernate, resuspend and precipitate thebacterium with 2YTAK, and culture over night at 28 DEG C. at 220 rpm.Suck supernate with the phage to carry out Enzyme Linked ImmunosorbentAssay (ELISA) identification, the phage comprising a biological antibodysequence (an amino acid sequence of heavy chain is the sequence No. 3 inCN10333247B, and an amino acid sequence of light chain is the sequenceNo. 9 in CN10333247B) with a same vector and a same construction methodof CN10333247B is used as positive control (named as 0-1), screen toobtain monoclonal antibodies N-1, N-2 and N-3 with high affinity, andcarry out gene sequencing to confirm the antibodies are different fromsequences in the original patent CN10333247B.

Embodiment 3 Gradient Dilution Phage ELISA to Compare Affinity ofAnti-VEGFR-2 Single-Chain Antibodies

Display and purify the monocolonies obtained in the embodiment 2, andcarry out phage gradient dilution ELISA to test and identify affinity.

Coat VEGFR-2 extracellular region with a pH 9.6 carbonate buffersolution, and coat over night with 20 ng/pore/100 ul at 4 DEG C. Washthree times with PBST, and seal for 1 hour with 4% milk-PBST at 37 DEGC. Dilute the purified phage with 4% milk-PBST Five-fold-gradient, put100 ul of diluted sample into each pore, and leave to stand for 1 hourat the room temperature. Wash ELISA plate with PBST, put an HRP-anti-M13monoclonal antibody which is diluted with 4% milk-PBST into the ELISAplate, and leave to stand for 1 hour at the room temperature. Developwith a Tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) developing kit for 10 minutes at theroom temperature. Terminate with 2M H₂SO₄, and read numbers at 450nm/630 nm. Results are shown in FIG. 2, and three screened differentsingle-chain antibodies all can specifically bind with VEGFR-2, and thebinding capabilities are all higher than that of conventional 0-1.

Embodiment 4 Preparation of Complete Anti-KDR Antibodies

Respectively clone genes of a heavy chain VH and a light chain κ of thethree antibodies N-1, N-2 and N-3 into a vector pTSE (as shown in FIG.3) comprising constant region genes of heavy chain and light chain, anda vector pTSE for encoding a human IgG1 constant region (see SEQ ID NO:5) and a constant region of the chain κ (see SEQ ID NO: 6) (the vectorpTSE is as shown in FIG. 3, and see preparation processes in paragraph[0019] on page 3 of the specification of CN103525868A).

(constant region sequence of human IgG1):  SEQ ID NO: 5ASTKGPSVFPLAPSSKSTSGGTAALGCLVKDYFPEPVTVSVVNSGALTSGVHTFPAVLQSSGLYSLSSVVTVPSSSLGTQTYICNVNHKPSNTKVDKKVEPKSCDKTHTCPPCPAPELLGGPSVFLFPPKPKDTLMISRTPEVTCVVVDVSHEDPEVKFNVVYVDGVEVHNAKTKPREEQYNSTYRVVSVLTVLHQDVVLNGKEYKCKVSNKALPAPIEKTISKAKGQPREPQVYTLPPSRDELTKNQVSLTCLVKGFYPSDIAVEVVESNGQPENNYKTTPPVLDSDGSFFLYSKLTVDKSRVVQQGNVFSCSVMHEALHNHYTQKSLSLSPG.(constant region sequence of chain κ):  SEQ ID NO: 6RTVAAPSVFIFPPSDEQLKSGTASVVCLLNNFYPREAKVQVVKVDNALQSGNSQESVTEQDSKDSTYSLSSTLTLSKADYEKHKVYACEVTHQGLSSPVT KSFNRGEC. 

Carry out a transient transfection on an HEK293E cell to express thecomplete antibody, purify with an AKTA instrument protein A affinitycolumn to obtain a complete antibody protein, and test a proteinconcentration with a Bicinchoninic Acid Disodium (BCA) kit.

Embodiment 5 Binding Experiment of Complete Antibody and VEGFR2Extracellular Region

Coat VEGFR extracellular region with a pH9.6 carbonate buffer solution,and coat over night with 20 ng/pore/100 ul at 4 DEG C. Wash three timeswith 300 ul/pore/PBST, and further seal for 1 hour with 4% milk-PBST at37 DEG C., and add complete antibodies labeled with biotin of differentdilution degrees. Use human IgG(hIgG) as a homotype control, the highestconcentration of various complete antibodies is 100 ng/ml, make 8gradients with 5 times of dilution, and incubate for 2-3 hours at 37 DEGC. Wash five times with 300 ul/pore PBST, and further incubate for 1hour with streptavidin of 4% milk-PBST diluted in a ratio of 1:10000 at37 DEG C. Wash eight times with 300 ul/pore PBST, develop with the TMBdeveloping kit with 100 ul/pore for 10 minutes at the room temperature,and terminate with 2M H₂SO₄. Read numbers at 450 nm/630 nm. Results areshown in FIG. 4, all antibodies may well bind with KDR molecules on cellsurface, N3 has the highest affinity, and the affinity of N-1, N-2 andN-3 is higher than that of conventional 0-1.

Embodiment 6 Analysis on Binding Specificity of Complete Antibodies andVEGFR-2 on Cell Surface

According to the disclosure, binding of different complete antibodieswith VEGFR-2 on cell surface is detected using CHO cells withover-expression of VEGFR-2, and human IgG (hIgG) is used as a homotypecontrol. Digest with 0.25% pancreatin, and centrifuge to collect cells.At the same time dilute various antibodies, and dilute with a highestconcentration of 100 nM with a 4-fold gradient. Wash collected cellswith PBS+1% BSA for three times, further add PBS+1% BSA to resuspend thecells, lay the cells into a 96-pore plate, put 1×10⁵ cells into eachpore, add 100 ul of the diluted complete antibodies, and incubate for 1hour at the room temperature; centrifuge to remove supernate, wash forthree times with PBS, further resuspend the cells with dilutedanti-human IgG FC antibody marked by Alexa488, then incubate for 1 hourwithout light at the room temperature, wash for three times with PBS,resuspend with 100 ul of PBS, and detect a fluorescence intensity with aflow cytometry. Analyze results with Graphpad Prism. Results show thatN3 is capable of better binding with VEGFR-2 expressed by the cells, andthe binding capabilities of N1, N2 and N3 are all better than 0-1 (seeFIG. 5).

Embodiment 7 Experiment of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cell (HUVEC)Proliferation Inhibition of Complete Antibodies

Human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) is already widely appliedto study on vascular endothelial cell proliferation, cell signallingpathways and multiple tumorigenesis mechanisms, and the disclosurestudies HUVEC proliferation inhibitions with different anti-VEGFR-2antibodies. When HUVECs grow to an abundance of 80%, replace a medium bya fresh EGM medium with 5% of FBS, digest with pancreatin 6 hours later,further wash digested cells for 4-5 times with a serum-free medium,completely pour off the medium as much as possible after each time ofcentrifugation, count resuspension cells, inoculate 5000 cells/pore intoa 96-pore plate, avoid edge pores of the 96-pore plate, pour 100 ul ofthe serum-free medium into each pore, and carry out hunger over-nighttreatment. Suck off supernate 14-16 hours later, add 50 ul of VEGF/ECM(200 ng/ml) till a concentration is 100 ng/ml, uniformly mix withdifferent antibodies of different concentrations, and culture for 24hours. Further add CCK-8, and detect cell proliferation. Results showthat IC₅₀ (ng/L) of N1, N2 and N3 is 12.76, 17.32 and 10.53respectively, and IC₅₀ (ng/L) of 0-1 is 18.59; human umbilical veinendothelial cell proliferation inhibition capabilities of N1, N2 and N3are all higher than 0-1, and N3 has the best proliferation inhibitioncapability (see FIG. 6). Embodiments 5-7 show that results of bothmolecular and cytology levels of N1, N2 and N3 are better than 0-1 of anoptimal antibody of the original patent CN103525868A, and it means thatcandidate molecules of the patent have good development and applicationprospects.

The antibody may be used for treating diseases caused by tumorangiogenesis, including, but not limited, cancers such as non-small celllung cancer, metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, gliomas, colorectalcancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma,metastatic breast cancer with negative HER2, metastatic gastricadenocarcinoma, metastatic colorectal cancer, metastatic melanoma andmetastatic renal cell carcinoma, and diseases such as maculardegeneration.

For those of ordinary skill in the art, the embodiments only exemplarilydescribe the disclosure, and obviously specific realizations of thedisclosure are not limited to the modes above mentioned. Anynon-substantive improvement on the basis of the ideas and technicalschemes of the disclosure, or applications of the ideas and thetechnical schemes of the disclosure without improvement to othersituations shall fall within the scope of protection of the disclosure.

What is claimed is:
 1. An anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody, comprising alight chain variable region and a heavy chain variable region, whereinan amino acid sequence of the light chain variable region comprises anyone of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:3; and an amino acidsequence of the heavy chain variable region comprises SEQ ID NO:4.
 2. Apolypeptide or a protein comprising the light chain variable region orthe heavy chain variable region of the anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibodyas claimed in claim
 1. 3. A polynucleotide sequence encoding the aminoacid sequences of the light chain variable region or the heavy chainvariable region of the anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody as claimed inclaim
 1. 4. A recombinant Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) expression vectorcomprising the polynucleotide sequence as claimed in claim 3, whereinthe recombinant DNA expression vector comprises DNA sequences forencoding amino acid sequences of a heavy chain variable region, a heavychain constant region, a light chain variable region and a light chainconstant region of the anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody.
 5. A host cellfor transfecting the recombinant DNA expression vector as claimed inclaim 4, wherein the host cell comprises a mammalian cell, an insectcell, Escherichia coli or yeast, preferably the mammalian cell, andfurther preferably an HEK293E cell, a CHO cell or an NS0 cell.
 6. Themonoclonal antibody as claimed in claim 1, wherein the anti-VEGFR-2monoclonal antibody further comprises a heavy chain constant region, andthe heavy chain constant region is selected from the group consisting ofhuman IgG1, IgG2, IgG3 and IgG4 or the group consisting of mouse IgG1,IgG2a and IgG2b.
 7. A complete antibody comprising the light chainvariable region or the heavy chain variable region of the anti-VEGFR-2monoclonal antibody as claimed in claim
 1. 8. A bispecific antibody oran antibody medicine conjugate comprising the amino acid sequence of thelight chain variable region or the heavy chain variable region of theanti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody as claimed in claim
 1. 9. An artificialvector, a medicine or a medicine composition comprising the light chainvariable region or the heavy chain variable region of the anti-VEGFR-2monoclonal antibody as claimed in claim
 1. 10. (canceled)
 11. Adetection reagent or a detection kit comprising the light chain variableregion or the heavy chain variable region of the anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonalantibody as claimed in claim
 1. 12. A method for treating diseasescaused by angiogenesis, and the diseases comprise tumors and maculardegeneration, comprising: Administering an antibody comprising the lightchain variable region or the heavy chain variable region of theanti-VEGFR-2 as claimed in claim 1 to a subject.
 13. A fragmentcomprising the light chain variable region or the heavy chain variableregion of the anti-VEGFR-2 monoclonal antibody as claimed in claim 1,wherein the fragment further comprises Fab, Fab′, F(ab′)₂, Fv or ScFv.